On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:23:33 -0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:10:18 -0000, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:13:46 -0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:


It used to be old folk didn't know what a computer was, and the teenagers were the ones on the bulletin boards. (First computer - ZX Spectrum)

Speak for yourself. I was in the computer business 53 years ago.
They did run on kerosene tho ;-)

Wouldn't those be more correctly called industrial calculators?

Not really. These were transistor stored program machines with tape,
disk and card media and up to an 1100 (132 character) line a minute
printer. The base 1401 boasted a whopping 4k of Core Storage topping
out at 16k although the 70xx machines were bigger.
Basic clock cycle was 11.5 microseconds. (87khz or so)